Mead, Nebraska Weather
Mead, Nebraska — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Mead, Saunders County.
Full aviation weather for Mead is published on the Wahoo Municipal Airport (KAHQ) page, 9 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Mead have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Mead: Fremont Municipal Airport (KFET) 25 km · Millard Airport (KMLE) 32 km · Blair Executive Airport (KBTA) 38 km · Scribner State Airport (KSCB) 44 km · Lincoln Airport (KLNK) 48 km
Conditions reported at KAHQ describe the airfield itself. Weather 9 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Mead specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Mead.
About Mead, Nebraska
Mead is a place where the sky feels vast, a boundless canvas stretching over rolling farmland. It lies 14.2 miles south of Fremont, NE (from Fremont, NE: bearing 178°T), and is situated 7.0 miles east of Wahoo. The land here is a rich, dark loam, yielding patiently to the plow, its contours softened by generations of cultivation rather than dramatic geological upheaval. Ditches, often choked with cattails and whispering reeds, trace straight lines across the terrain, carrying water from distant sources, mirroring the ordered geometry of the fields. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, particularly in the late afternoon when the sun begins its slow descent, painting the western horizon in hues of pale gold and fading rose, a quiet effervescence before the deep indigo of night. Even the wind, when it stirs, seems to carry the scent of turned earth and the faint, sweet perfume of ripening corn. The history of Mead is written in the persistent agricultural spirit that has shaped its identity. This is land that has always been worked, its economy tethered to the fortunes of the harvest, the wheat and corn and soybeans that stretch to the horizon in ordered, sun-drenched rows. The railroad, a ghost of its former self, once brought the bounty of these fields to wider markets, and its faint echo can still be felt in the quiet hum of machinery and the occasional rumble of a passing grain truck. The buildings in Mead, sturdy and unassuming, bear the marks of a community built on hard work and practicality, a testament to the enduring resilience of those who chose to make their lives on this Nebraska prairie.
Live animated radar for Mead and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Mead, Saunders County, Nebraska |
| Coordinates | 41.227779°N, 96.487802°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 68041 |
| Area Code | 402, 531 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Mead, Nebraska Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mead, Nebraska, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Mead includes coordinates 41.227779°N, 96.487802°W, situated in Saunders County. ZIP code 68041. Telephone area code: 402, 531. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
